VISIT + SHOP + LEARN
Maine Craft Portland is now open to the public in addition to curbside pick-up and shopping by appointment. Public hours are 12-3 Monday – Wednesday and 12-5pm Thursday – Saturday with appointments available upon request during other hours. Hours will be adjusting (hopefully increasing) as we adjust to COVID.
You wear a mask, we provide hand sanitizer. We want to make your experience with us safe!
To schedule an appointment please email maria@mainecrafts.org or call (207)808-8184 and leave your name and number.
For artists: please call ahead and make an appointment before making deliveries to the retail galleries (no drop ins please!)
Maine Craft Portland is a retail gallery + resource center in the historic Mechanics Hall downtown Portland, Maine. It promotes craft in Maine through exhibitions and public programming and directly benefits Maine craft artists through sales of their work. Maine Craft Portland opened in July 2018 and exhibits and sells the work of over 130 MCA member craft artists.
2020 Hours
During COVID: Please call to learn current hours, we adjust them often but are open most days beginning July 6th
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521 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
207-808-8184
portland@mainecrafts.org
Maria Wolff, Manager: maria@mainecrafts.org
ABOUT MAINE CRAFT PORTLAND
One decade after opening the Center for Maine Craft, a retail gallery in West Gardiner, the Maine Crafts Association established a second retail gallery + resource center: Maine Craft Portland. Since the gallery opening in July 2018, the new space has continued the MCA’s mission to introduce Maine’s craftspeople to a national audience through exhibitions and public programming in the beautiful Mechanics Hall of downtown Portland. Together the Center for Maine Craft and Maine Craft Portland represent the work of over 400 craft artists and small businesses of Maine.
HISTORICAL BUILDING MEETS MODERN MAKERS MOVEMENT
The Mechanics Hall is located in the vibrant Arts District of Portland. Across the street from Maine College of Art, blocks from the Portland Museum of Art, and home to an art supply store, it is only made more ideal by dovetailing missions of the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association and Maine Crafts Association. Mechanics Hall programming & events strengthen the MCA’s efforts and income opportunities. Maine Craft Portland represents Maine’s history of excellence in craft, reinforced by the impeccably preserved historical architecture, library, ballroom and classroom found in the levels above the retail space in this historical building.
